Lotus Notes Check

[ssochs]

Hello,

we had to test Lotus Notes Databases/Servers.

You can check this with a IP test or check for the lotus notes service on the target machine.
This was not enough for us, in many cases the server delivers no data, but the tcp socket and the service was working.
We find the possibility to check lotus notes servers over odbc.

You need a tool called NotesSQL, this is available with the server version from lotus domino or online.
After the installation you get a odbc driver, setup this with id-file/passwort.
Now setup a odbc test on Host Monitor without user/passwort, this informations are saved within the odbc connection, with a sql statement like "SELECT FullName FROM __People_;".

First we test the connection with microsoft access, because the sql got wrong. I assume the problem was the table name, this is case sensitive and start with two underlines and end with one underline.

Sorry for my horrible english!

By
dirk

[KS-Soft]

Don't worry about your English, its not bad.
I think this information will be very useful, some administrators have to monitor Lotus while they don't know much about this system because Lotus comes as heritage from old times..
Truth to say I know nothing about Lotus

Regards
Alex

[Quantum]

We also monitor Domino servers.

Using the perfmon counters along with the NT service checks you can monitor all the Domino tasks and their memory usage.

If you want to check for a Domino server task all you need to do is look for that name in the server task list prefixed with an n

For example.

The Domino Server is nserver.exe
To monitor it's RAM usage use the perfmon counter: \Process(nserver)\Working Set

The adminp Process is nadminp.exe
RAM usage is: \Process(nadminp)\Working Set

Etc

Hope this helps.

Q